‘You remind me of my ex’ – are there any more hurtful words? The reference to you in relation to something else, something that came before, something, maybe, that you might not be. Was that initial interest driven by familiarity to something else? Something, better?

Listening to Oversize’s promising 2022 EP ‘Into The Ceiling’ you can’t help think that there’s something about it, something… familiar. Something about the early 2000’s alt-rock mixed with shoegaze, the swirl of chorus pedals, the softened vocals, the hints of noise that reveals danger stirring beneath its surface – and then it hits, realisation dawns – they sound like My Vitriol – a band that could never follow-up their debut, an unlived promise, a great untapped reservoir, and what if, what if Oversize could fill that space?

Love is a complex thing. A simple word for an emotion that is anything but. A changing, shifting relationship between the self and another that can be felt despite, or perhaps because of, its…

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